Producing ideas

Our thoughts are just random stones thrown into a river.  It is fun to skip stones across the surface, or even lob bigger rocks off into deeper water, but when you have finished you just turn your back and walk away.  Nothing has changed.  On the other hand, an idea happens when we take those stones […]

Time is opportunity

Time, at its core, is nothing more than opportunity.  History is past opportunity, the future is potential opportunity, but the only opportunity that actually exists is the time you are experiencing right now. 
This leads us to 2 important conclusions:

If the only opportunities that exist are the time that we call now, then there is no need to regret.  […]

Why write?

The world is full of books, papers, journals and now, web sites. 
Q. What sort of a fool would say that we need more? 
A. The sort of fool who is sick of seeing the same copy-cat writing produced over and over again.  Can’t we do better than that?
The trap is that we believe that there is […]

Consumption vs Production - you are what you eat

Most of us live in highly advanced communities.  We live and die with technology, speed and precision that seems to distance us from the rest of our world’s plants and animals.  This is exacerbated by the fact that approximately half of us live in dense cities.  We are much more likely to exist without obvious relationships with  plants […]

Consumption- taking lives since 4000BC

Consumption was historically the term used for the disease we know as Tuberculosis.  It was called this because it was (and still is) a terrible disease that seems to consume people from within.  How ironic, that consumption as we know it today, does exactly the same thing. 
Today when we use the word consumption we are talking about […]

Contrarian living

 
Contrarian investing is all about buying when others are selling and selling when the world is buying.  It is all about timing and swimming against the stream.  This can be a useful strategy for investors with courage, but I believe that it can also revolutionize other areas of your life.
Consider Contrarian Career development.  Most people guide their careers by […]

Out of Focus?

The world around us is complex enough without us trying to take it in all at once.  We can only deal with one thing at a time but we are restless.  Our fickle eyes are never still.   Moving from one object to the next, then on again like some over excited puppy.  Our minds pick […]

Why your goals don’t work?

So it happened again.  You longed for that job and someone else landed it.  You wanted to win but you came in second.  You set your goal and did what you decided had to be done, but it didn’t work.  What is wrong with these goals?  Why don’t they work? 
The problem comes down to deciding what is […]

Viral does not equal valuable

Viral concepts travel faster than you or I could.  They seem to bounce from one hand to the next, one brain to the next, faster than comprehension can keep up.  They are fueled by the forward button and a thumbs up.  Their reach is only limitted by the network that they travel in. 
Every one will […]

The Power of Relationship pyramids

Now before you think I am talking about pyramid selling,  I can assure you that the real power of Relationship Pyramids is much more important than that.  When I use the term Relationship Pyramid, I am describing the way that we have many different degrees of relationships with people around us. 
The vast majority of those meetings […]